Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from the Comte de Rochambeau, 26 July 1783

From the Comte de Rochambeau4

AL: American Philosophical Society

Paris ce 26. Juillet 1783.

Le Cte. de Rochambeau prie Monsieur Le Docteur francklin de vouloir bien faire passer la lettre ci-jointe à Mr. le chr. de La Luzerne par la premiere occasion

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

4. The only extant letter to BF from the victor at Yorktown.

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    Franklin Papers
    Title
    To Benjamin Franklin from the Comte de Rochambeau, 26 July 1783
    Author
    Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de
    Recipient
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    26 July 1783

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from the Comte de Rochambeau, 26 July 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-40-02-0232. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 40, May 16 through September 15, 1783, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011, p. 386.]